Why PAS2035 and retrofit is doomed

Trustmark without ceremony have now put up CIGA2 The IAA (insulation assurance authority) as a Trustmark scheme provider as a retrofit co-ordinator scheme operator.

The IAA  rebrand can use all their 'experience' and an appalling and amoral redress system which has been dragged in front of  parliament several times to mess with far more aspects of your house than ever before thanks to Trustmark.

One of the big criticisms of the cavity insulation industry was that installers could grab the money from an ECO scheme,  fold their business and then spring up as another company and get re-certified within weeks without the hassle of complaints with CIGA doing a good job of batting off valid claims. With the help of BEIS and Trustmark, CIGA have done a macro version of this trick and managed to phoenix a scheme provider while keeping all the technical oversight 'in house'.

Trustmark have essentially enabled the biggest Phoenix of all. Remember that without any precedence or a proven record of anything but messing up CWI and EWI. Trustmark granted  CIGA and SWIGA  a PAS2035 bypass. 

And best of all they can offer it as a loss leader bankrolled by CIGA debenture (which should be helping victims) thus out-pricing independent retrofit co-ordinators who are far more likely to be working in the home owner's best interest rather than CIGA's.

How is this any different to what came before? Trustmark has proven itself to be a puppy dog that rolls over for the industry where what was desperately needed was a body to challenge and fight for the consumer.  Oversight as ever is poor as it relies on the same chain of trust from UKAS to installer which caused so much damage to people's houses in the past and Trustmark has very little to offer the vulnerable with the guarantees being the same (unregulated and not insurance backed),  it's the exact same CIGA redress process as ADR is provided by the scheme and is confidential and legally binding and not visible to Trustmark.